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by tiahura 1634 days ago
Says the judge when you admit to what you did and plead. He’s the same one that gave Lori Laughlin and Mossimo 6 months in minimum security “camp” and not the bazillion years the prosecutor originally threatened.
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> Says the judge when you admit to what you did and plead. He’s the same one that gave Lori Laughlin and Mossimo 6 months in minimum security “camp” and not the bazillion years the prosecutor originally threatened.

The prosecutor was trying to railroad Aaron for political gain and used every shenanigan in his bag of tricks to leverage Aaron into confessing -er- agreeing to a plea bargain. It was wrong, and very much revisionist to say otherwise.

Are you talking about the famous wealthy upper class and status people with your example?

Not sure if you genuinely believe justice is blind. Something that has never been true.

Blind to what? He was guilty.

White boys don’t do hard time for hiding in the closet to copy the library’s computer.

The judge appears to be a conservative old navy man. I haven’t dealt with him, but I think I’ve been in front of the type. Trial would go something like this: On the morning of day 3, so before the second day of testimony, the judge calls the attorneys into chambers and lays into them, sometimes loud enough for half the courthouse to hear, for wasting everyone’s time on such a stupid case, and that the prosecutor better have really good evidence of hard damages otherwise he’s going to be pissed. And then you go out, talk to your clients, and settle.

> the judge calls the attorneys into chambers and lays into them, sometimes loud enough for half the courthouse to hear, for wasting everyone’s time on such a stupid case,

You're basically writing fan fiction here. There's no evidence this would have been the case, and frankly I rather doubt it. There's nothing to suggest the judge would have reacted this way, nor that Swartz should have anticipated that he would.

I wasn’t sure how to respond to the last paragraph. You worded it correctly
Blind to what? You just stated “white boys”. So you agree justice isn’t blind. Then bringing up a rich, famous, American icon celebrity and how they were handled does not make sense.

Edit: as sibling post says. The rest of the comment is equivalent to fan fiction.

> Are you talking about the famous wealthy upper class and status people with your example?

As opposed to a wealthy, well-connected Harvard research fellow and entrepreneur who stems from an upper class family?

Yes. Unless this family is absurdly rich like hundreds of millions. If that’s true I am wrong. Otherwise, the wealthier American icon is still different enough where a [direct] comparison does not work.